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- Beer may top £6 a pint by 2012
- US Travel – Baseball Park Food Reaches Big-League Status – NYTimes.com
- Home sales down 12 percent for year
- SHW TIME: A dancer enthralls the guests. (TI Photo)
- Japan: “I wasn’t aware that we were so dependent on imports.&…

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mlive.com – Jun 8, 2008
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Beer may top £6 a pint by 2012
Glasgow Evening Times – Jun 8, 2008
50 for a pint in four years. The Scottish Beer and Pub Association believe tax hikes and changes to licensing laws mean the cost of drinking in pubs will rocket between now and 2012. By the end of this year a total of 25p will have been slapped on the price of a pint bringing the average cost to well over £3. advertisementThe average price of lager in Scotland is currently £2. The tax on beer will continue to rise by inflation plus an extra 2% as the Government tries to clamp down on the problems of binge drinking leading to prices soaring over the next four years.

US Travel – Baseball Park Food Reaches Big-League Status – NYTimes.com
New York Times – Jun 8, 2008
And dishes from other baseball-loving cultures have made inroads like tonkatsu Japanese fried pork cutlets; sweet-fried plantains from Latin America; and pressed Cuban sandwiches. f course I also saw plenty that deserved jeers: in the cramped confines of Wrigley Field’s concourses I watched a large man his head thrown back guzzling spicy curly fries from a cup like they were a beverage. I ate mushy hot links bone-dry hot dogs and hot wings with no heat… Also say no to burgers: the uniformly desiccated patties served at baseball games taste as though they were grilled sometime back when people still named their kids Honus and Ty. I sampled eight of them in my travels and am now convinced that mustard on greasy napkins would probably be a tastier snack. Finally forget cocktails: margaritas poured from a beer tap are a travesty and canned “micheladas” are worse. But the tens of thousands of calories I devoured also turned up plenty to applaud. There were two commendable forces at play at the best parks I visited: the upscaling of concession stands and the whole-hearted embrace of local vernacular cooking. THE leading example of upscale food might be AT&T Park in San Francisco. pened in 2000 the stadium has a classic arched-coliseum look but with modern amenities like wide concourses with great sightlines to the field.

Home sales down 12 percent for year
Tulsa World (subscription) – Jun 8, 2008
Atlanta-based Perma-Fix started the west Tulsa site in the early 1990s company Chairman and CE Louis Centofanti said. The Tulsa facility is the third industrial waste-treatment plant sold by Perma-Fix recently. Brewer pub owner hoist local tasteA new local beer-maker and the ownership of McNellie’s Public House are teaming up to release a Tulsa-centric brew that klahomans can be proud of. Eric Marshall of Marshall Brewing Co. said his 7300-square-foot facility is now brewing three beers including McNellie’s Pub Ale which is available on tap at McNellie’s Pub 409 E. Marshall’s brewery also brews Atlas India Pale Ale and Sundown Wheat Beer… Marshall’s brewery also brews Atlas India Pale Ale and Sundown Wheat Beer. The brewery at 618 S. will begin bottling its beer in about a month and distribute to a more diverse group of establishments at that point Marshall said. Elliot Nelson owner of McNellie’s and a handful of other restaurants and bars downtown said McNellie’s Pub Ale is brewed in the style of a British bitter. “It’s an amber-colored ale and a little flatter than your average beer — less carbonation” Nelson said.

SHW TIME: A dancer enthralls the guests. (TI Photo)
Times of India – Jun 8, 2008
(TI Photo) Goapartygoers couldn?t have asked for more as they revelled at the Tiger Beerlaunch party on Friday night. After jet setting around the world Asia PacificBreweries Aurangabad Limited (APBAL) launched it?s award-winning flagshipbeer in Goa. The party heldat Mambos rocked with some energetic beats of urban underground music beltedout by Jalebee Cartel. Vinay Mathur the chief financial officer APBAL was seenmixing business with pleasure as he partied as well as enlightened the peopleabout the beer that?s hit the Goan market for the first time. ?AtTiger we believe that a time to have fun is not bound by any place a time tocelebrate is not bound by any occasion likewise a time for a Tiger is not boundby the clock.

Japan: “I wasn’t aware that we were so dependent on imports.&…
Washington Post – Jun 8, 2008
I wait go home and check the fridge" said Mukai who has a 2-year-old. "I go grocery shopping once a week and I try not to shop during the week because that would make me spend unnecessarily. "Her husband drinks about a can of beer a day "the expensive stuff" she noted. "This beer costs three times as much as the real cheap beer the low-malt beer. I am looking the other way right now but honestly speaking I would love him to drink less like one can every two or three days. "She worries about Japan’s dependence on imported food. "I saw the other day on TV that if everyone stopped exporting to us we will only be left with a bowl of rice" she said.